Meyerbeer

John Osborn (Robert), Nicolas Courjal (Bertram), Amina Edris (Alice), Erin Morley (Isabelle), Nico Darmanin (Raimbaut) Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opera National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski

John Osborn (Jean de Leyde), Elizabeth DeShong (Fidès), Mané Galoyan (Berthe), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Count Oberthal) London Symphony Orchestra, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, Lyon Opera Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Michael Spyres (baritenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Diana Damrau (soprano) Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Emmanuel Villaume

Jodie Devos (soprano), Brussels Philharmonic, Pierre Bleuse

Pene Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emmanuel Villaume

Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Chorus & Orchestra of the ROH, Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Ludovic Tézier (baritone) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy

Joyce El-Khoury (soprano), Michael Spyres (tenor) The Hallé, Carlo Rizzi

José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta

Bryan Hymel (tenor) PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Emmanuel Villaume

Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano) Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri

Diana Damrau (soprano) Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Emmanuel Villaume

Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano) Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Marc Minkowski

Giulio Tampalini (guitar)

Duo Praxedis (harp and piano)

Maria Callas (soprano)

Florian Sempey (baritone), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Victor Jacob

Pretty Yende (soprano) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Sagripanti

Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Ben Heppner (tenor), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Jürgen Musser (clarinet), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Roberto Abbado

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Michał Nesterowicz

Paul van Kempen

Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Alexey Gusev (bass-baritone), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Soraya Mafi (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Julie Fuchs (soprano) Enrique Mazzola

Pasquale Amato

Leontyne Price (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine

Roberto Alagna (tenor) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London Voices, Bertrand de Billy

Leontyne Price (soprano) RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Huw Williams (organ)

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Melvyn Tan (piano), Christina Högman (sop), Eric Hoeprich (clarinet), Nils-Erich Sparf (violin)

Frieda Hempel

Beniamino Gigli (tenor), Giuseppe De Luca (baritone), Amelita Galli-Curci (soprano), Louise Homer (contralto), Angelo Bada (tenor), Ezio Pinza (bass) Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon, Giulio Setti

Franco Corelli featuring RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin and Arturo Basile, Franco Corelli (tenor), Franco Ferraris, Franco Corelli featuring Alfredo Simonetto and RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin, Turin and Umberto Cattini, Umberto Cattini, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano), Metropolitan Opera (opera company), Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Arturo Basile, Alfredo Simonetto, Horst Stein, Karl Böhm, Anton Guadagno

Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Susan Gritton, Ann Murray, Stella Doufexis (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass) & Graham Johnson (piano)

Michael Spyres (Vasco da Gama), Claudia Mahnke (Sélika), Brian Mulligan (Nélusko), Andreas Bauer Kanabas (Don Pédro), Thomas Faulkner (Don Diego), Kirsten MacKinnon (Ines), Bianca Andrew (Anna), Michael McCown (Don Alvar) Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Antonello Manacorda

Véronique Gens (soprano) Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Lenneke Ruiten (soprano), Davide Bandieri (clarinet), Diego Fasiolis, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lausanne, Diego Fasolis

Enrico Caruso

Eugene Conley (tenor) The New Symphony Orchestra, Robert Farnon and His Orchestra, Royalton Kisch, Alberto Erede, Warwick Braithwaite

Roberto Alagna (tenor), Morphing Chamber Orchestra, Giorgio Croci

Christopher Herrick (Letourneau organ in the Concert Hall of The Winspear Centre, Edmonton, Canada)

Jussi Björling (tenor)

Plácido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti, Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Orchestra of Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini", Emerson Buckley (director), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, José Carreras (tenor), Symphony Orchestra Of The Gran Teatro Del Liceu De Barcelona, Coral Polifónica de Puig-Reig, Ramón Noguera (chorus master), Ensemble, Paco de Lucía (guitar), Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Tucker (tenor), Columbia Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Peter Hofmann (tenor), Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Agnes Baltsa (soprano), Julio Salazar (director), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Orchestra of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New York Philharmonic Orchestra John DeMain, Joan Casas, John Pritchard, Franz Allers, Jonathan Tunick, Lee Holdridge, Ivan Fischer, Pierre Dervaux, John Pryce-Jones, Zubin Mehta

David Hill (soloist), Noel Rawsthorne (soloist), David Halls (soloist), Richard Lloyd (soloist), Francis Jackson (soloist), Stephen Cleobury (soloist), Malcolm Archer (soloist), Timothy Farrell (soloist), Catherine Ennis (soloist)

Eva Zalenga (soprano), Till Schuler, Doriana Tchakarova, Adam Ambarzumjan, Victoria Wong

Lars Björling, Anouchka Mukherjee, Harry Ebert, Unknown, Brita Lignell, Lilian Carlsson, Ulf Wesslén, Gunnar Hahn, John McCay, Jan Eyron, Carl-otto Erasmie, Sergei Reznikov

Eirian James (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Colin Bradbury (clarinet), Oliver Davies (piano)

Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Hjödis Schymberg (Mimi), Victoria de los Angeles (Nedda), Leonard Warren (Tonio), Paul Franke (Beppe), Robert Merrill (Silvio), Victoria de los Angeles (Mimi), Lucine Amara (Musetta), Robert Merrill (Marcello), John Reardon (Schaunard), Giorgio Tozzi (Colline), Victoria de los Angeles (Butterfly), Miriam Pirazzini (Suzuki), Mario Sereni (Sharpless), Piero de Palma (Goro)

Mado Robin (soprano), Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Dervaux

Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Martina Arroyo (Valentine de Saint-Bris), Huguette Tourangeau (Urbain), Anastasios Vrenios (Raoul de Nangis), Dominic Cossa (Compte de Nevers), Gabriel Bacquier (Compte de Saint-Bris), Nicola Ghiuselev (Marcel), John Wakefield (Bois-Rosé/De Tavannes), Joseph Ward (De Cossé), John Noble (De Thoré), Glynne Thomas (De Retz), John Gibbs (De Meru) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Valerie Bak (Marguerite), Maud Cunitz (Valentine), Karl Terkal (Urbain) & Walter Berry (Comte de Gris) Robert Heger

Patrizia Ciofi (Dinorah), Etienne Dupuis (Hoël), Philippe Talbot (Corentin), Seth Carico (Le Chasseur), Elebenita Kajtazi (Chevrière et premier pâtre), Gideon Poppe (Le Faucheur), Christina Sidak (Chevrière et second pâtre) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola

Francesco Navarini (1855-1923) - a bass with a voluminous sound, rich and dark, never plummy. Eugenio Giraldoni (1871-1924) - a baritone who projects his roles as a great actor.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)